Self-Healing Fabric That Can Repair Itself

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Researchers at Penn State say that, not only is this fabric self-healing, but it can also be used to neutralize chemicals as well. Watch this fabric self-heal when water is applied to it in this video.
 
So, uhh.. it's "self healing" if you wet it and squish it together.

And it appears to not care if it is a broken end applied ot a broken end for the repair.

So like I put it in the washing machine and it comes out a fused lump?
 
raz-0 said:
So, uhh.. it's "self healing" if you wet it and squish it together.

And it appears to not care if it is a broken end applied ot a broken end for the repair.

So like I put it in the washing machine and it comes out a fused lump?
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That was the first thing that came to mind for me, would be completely impractical as regular clothing that gets thrown in a washing machine. Heck even rain would be this stuff's kryptonite.
 
Get a little sweaty in this and your arms will be stuck to your sides.
 
The fact that fabric coated in a special polymer can adhere to itself when torn is less exciting than the fact that the polymer is activated by specific chemicals, and can break down those chemicals in the process.
 
So they coated a textile with a water-activated adhesive. How is this revolutionary?
 
I didn't think about washing...
Think about a t-shirt... with the sweet, or the rain... you now have a permenant shirt stuck to your body hair!

Is that a tatoo of a shirt?
 
What happens when it decides to heal into your skin or hair? Like said above, how would you wash it. Sounds like a cool idea until you actually use it.
 
Best possible use case: for drunks after they get in a fight, their shirt gets ripped and then get beer dumped on them.
 
raz-0 said:
So, uhh.. it's "self healing" if you wet it and squish it together.

And it appears to not care if it is a broken end applied ot a broken end for the repair.

So like I put it in the washing machine and it comes out a fused lump?
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Or the fact the hole you just patched looks like a hole with another piece of fabric over/under (depending direction) it.

Not really what I call self-healing.
 
Not interested until nano machines restitch/create fabric to actually repair items like they were never damaged/destroyed.
 
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